Symmetries of first-order Lovelock gravity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAEA21zbMATH Open1431.83141arXiv1808.03723OpenAlexW3099833540WikidataQ129057118 ScholiaQ129057118MaRDI QIDQ5218347FDOQ5218347

Authors: Merced Montesinos, Rodrigo Romero, Bogar Díaz 

Publication date: 2 March 2020

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply the converse of Noether's second theorem to the first-order $n$-dimensional Lovelock action, considering the frame rotation group as both $SOleft(1,n-1ight)$ or as $SO(n)$. As a result, we get the well-known invariance under local Lorentz transformations or $SO(n)$ transformations and diffeomorphisms, for odd- and even-dimensional manifolds. We also obtain the so-called `local translations' with nonvanishing constant $Lambda$ for odd-dimensional manifolds when a certain relation among the coefficients of the various terms of the first-order Lovelock Lagrangian is satisfied. When this relation is fulfilled, we report the existence of a new gauge symmetry emerging from a Noether identity. In this case the fundamental set of gauge symmetries of the Lovelock action is composed by the new symmetry, local translations with $Lambdaeq0$ and local Lorentz transformations or $SO(n)$ transformations. The commutator algebra of this set closes with structure functions. We also get the invariance under local translations with $Lambda=0$ of the highest term of the Lovelock action in odd-dimensional manifolds. Furthermore, we report a new gauge symmetry for the highest term of the first-order Lovelock action for odd-dimensional manifolds. In this last case, the fundamental set of gauge symmetries can be considered as Poincar'e or Euclidean transformations together with the new symmetry. The commutator algebra of this set also closes with structure functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03723

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zbMATH Keywords

Lovelock gravitygauge symmetriesNoether's second theoremlocal translations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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